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Overview“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. ” Henri Poincar´ e (1854 - 1912) The ancient Greeks, quite ingeniously, realised that all materials and their (now known as macroscopic) properties, including life itself, are due to a limited number of tiny, constantly moving building blocks and the conn- tions (now called interactions) between these blocks. Receiving both scienti?c and non-scienti?c opposition, the idea faded and, despite some renaissance of atomistic ideas in the 17-19th centuries, it still took more than two thousand years, until the time of Einstein, for the idea of microscopic building blocks to be fully accepted. These ideas, begun during the golden age of physics in the 20thcentury,haveledtoacomprehensiveunderstandingofsuchstatesofm- ter as gases and solids, which in turn have completely revolutionised everyday life in the developed world by introducing technological wonders such as m- ern cars, air tra?c, semiconductor chips for computers and nuclear power. Another state of matter, ?uids, appeared to be much more di?cult to tackle, even in the case of simple liquids like liquid argon, a research favourite in the ?eld. Legend tells that Lev D. Full Product DetailsAuthor: A.V. ZvelindovskyPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: 2007 ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.124kg ISBN: 9781402063299ISBN 10: 1402063296 Pages: 628 Publication Date: 27 July 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface. List of Contributors. Part I: Experimental Advances. Microemulsion Templating; W.F.C. Sager. Nanofabrication of Block Copolymer Bulk and Thin Films: Microdomain Structures as Templates; Takeji Hashimoto and Kenji Fukunaga. Characterization of Surfactant Water Systems by X-Ray Scattering and 2H NMR; Michael C. Holmes. Polyelectrolyte Diblock Copolymer Micelles: Small Angle Scattering Estimates of the Charge Ordering in the Coronal Layer; Johan R.C. van der Maarel. Structure and Shear-Induced Order in Blends of a Diblock Copolymer with the Corresponding Homopolymers; I.W. Hamley, V. Castelletto and Z. Yang. Electric Field Alignment of Diblock Copolymer Thin Films; T. Xu, J. Wang and T.P. Russell. Control of Block Copolymer Microdomain Orientation from Solution Using Electric Fields: Governing Parameters and Mechanisms; Alexander Boeker. Structure and Dynamics of Cylinder Forming Block Copolymers in Thin Films; Larissa Tsarkova. Part II: Mathematical and Theoretical Approaches. Mathematical Description of Nanostructures with Minkowski Functionals; G.J.A. Sevink. Scaling Theory of Polyelectrolyte and Polyampholyte Micelles; Nadezhda P. Shusharina and Michael Rubinstein. The Latest Development of the Weak Segregation Theory of Microphase Separation in Block Copolymers; I.Ya. Erukhimovich. Coarse-Grained Modeling of Mesophase Dynamics in Block Copolymers; Zhi-Feng Huang and Jorge Vinals. Effective Interactions in Soft Materials; Alan R. Denton. Part III: Computer Simulations. Ab-Initio Coarse-Graining of Entangled Polymer Systems; J.T. Padding and W.J. Briels. Computer Simulations of Nano-Scale Phenomena Based on the Dynamic Density Functional Theories: Applications of SUSHI in the OCTA System; Takashi Honda and Toshihiro Kawakatsu. MonteCarlo Simulations of Nano-Confined Block Copolymers; Qiang Wang. Understanding Vesicles and Bio-Inspired Systems with Dissipative Particle Dynamics; Julian C. Shillcock. Theoretical Study of Nanostructured Biopolymers Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations: a Practical Introduction; Danilo Roccatano. Understanding Liquid/Colloids Composites with Mesoscopic Simulations; Ignacio Pogonabarraga. Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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